Coin-holder.



A. A. kunnen. SNN HOLDER.

Appucatih medreb. e, 19o1.

No'. 682,852. Patented sept. I7, |901.

(No Model.)

linnen Sterns heresy ALBERT A. RIDDER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,

GQINBHLDR.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,852,

dated September l?, 196i.

Appreciate@ remryaioi. sereinala'zsc camas tion, the construction of said device being such that the coins may be readily entered in said holder one ata time, and the last coin thus entered will lock the others and itself as well against accidental displacement.

Asimple and convenient forni of my invention is shown in plan View in Figure l of the annexed drawings, and Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View of the same, taken on the line 2 2 f the said Fig. l. ln Fig. 5 I have illustrated in plan a somewhat more elaborate coin -holder embodying my invention,y the same being in the form of a cross, each of the arms of which is formed as a coin-receptacle, said cross and Various other forms of holders, such as letters and fanciful designs, being specially adapted for use in the collecting and storing of coins for missionary and similar charitable purposes by children and others.

Briefly described, my invention consists of a device havin g on its opposite sides undercut channels of a sise suitable to just receive the coins, the said device being cut away at some suitable point in a` peculiar manner, as I shall describe more fully later on, so that the coins may be entered one at a time, each succeeding coin serving to crowd the others forward in the said channels until they are full. The last coin when adjusted in place operates to lock the others and itself as well within the holder.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a denotes the bottom or base of the said holder, said base being of plate or sheet form and of any suitable material. When intended for long continued and repeated use, said holder may be made of sheet metal.; but if vit is te be `used once only or out a few times, as when utilized for charity collections,it .may be made of cardboard or other similar cheap stock. Mounted upon the base a or formed integral therewith ou its opposite edges are upwardlyn extending walls c', having,r intnrned edges c2, by means ef which undercut channels h are formed ci' a lf sigilli and width snfilcient. to receive and hold the coins, as indicated by dotted circles in the drawings. The open space between'the inturned edges a2 allows enough of each coin to be seen to readily determine the dene'rnination of said coins and also to disclose how iriany have been placed in said holder. At one end of the holder, as here shown, the inturned edge is cnt away, as at as, the cut-away portion being of the forni and size of a small segment of one of the coins which the holder is designed to receive.

inturned end that the last coin can be enp.

tered only by irst inserting' one of its edges under the edge c2, that is directly opposite said segment, and then by dropping the exposed edge into the segmental cut and forcing thecoin laterally in a direction away from the other coins the said last coin will slide under the inturned edge a4 at the end of the holder and drop into the saine plane with the other coins. When the last coin is being thnsfo'rcibly slid into its place in the holder, the overlapping edge a2, being made of flexible material, (as sheet metal or cardboardj) will yield suiiiciently to allow the entrance cf the coin and will then return to its normal position and serve to hold all the coins in the same plane with suihcient force to prevent the accidental displacement of the last coin, and it will be obvious that the said last coin will serve as a binder or wedge to prevent the escape of the other coins.

My described device may be very cheally manufactured, and l find in practice that it serves ina most satisfactory manner as a. safe is provided; the said inwardly-turnededge and convenient means for thestorage of coins being cut away, as at a3, whereby coins may for the purpose stated. be entered,` one ata. time, and slid into the Having thus described 1n y inventicn, I said undercut channel. 5 claim- Signed at Springfield, Massachusetts, this x5 Acoin-holder cemprising in a single struc- .29th day of January, 1901:

ALBERT A. KIDDER.

une, a base of plate form having an up- Wardlyandinwardlyextendingedgewhereby v Witnesses:

, nelongatedundercub channel, 'capable of W. L. PEARE,

xo receiving and retaining a. multiple if coins, a ARTHUR L. Fisk. 

